The Masses

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Title

The Masses

Coverage

New York

Publisher

The Masses Publishing Company

Date

August 1917

Subject

Volume 9, number 10, issue 74

Description

A highly important socialist monthly published between 1911 and 1917 that featured the writing, poetry, and art of prominent radicals including Max Eastman, John Sloan, Art Young, George Bellows and John Reed. It reported labor conflicts and advocated for suffrage and birth control, but came to an end after being banned from the mails (including this issue) by the United States Post Office.